Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d

United Kingdom
  • MS Eng. poet. b. 5

    A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum.

    c.1651-7.

    Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name Harriet Marcusden. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.

    Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.

  • MS Eng. poet. c. 9

    A miscellany of verse and prose, entitled Miscellanies, many pages excised.

    Compiled by one Thomas Phillibrown of London.

    c.1740-58.

    Once owned by J.L. Lawford. Given to the library on 5 October 1901 by Mrs Green, of Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire.

    • DnJ 572.5 p. 6

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

      John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DrJ 199.2 p. 17

      Copy.

      Kinsley, IV, 1529-35. California, VII, 196-202. Hammond & Hopkins, V, 190-201.

      John Dryden, To my Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire ('How Bless'd is He, who leads a Country Life') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CgW 24 p. 235

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 79. Dobrée, pp. 284-5. McKenzie, II, 369.

      William Congreve, Lesbia ('When Lesbia first I saw so heavn'ly Fair') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
  • MS Eng. poet. c. 18

    A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single professional hand (up to f. 372r), with later additions on ff. 372r-203r(c.1738-45), 203 leaves, in contemporary speckled calf (rebacked).

    c.1700 [-1745].

    Once owned by C. Stuteville (inscribed f. 2r) and later, c.1880, by the Grimston family and by the Byrom family, of Kilnwick Hall, East Yorkshire. Bought from E.L.G. Byrom in 1921.

    • SdT 2 ff. 9r-11r

      Copy.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Summers, V, 227-9.

      Thomas Shadwell, A Letter from Mr. Shadwell to Mr. Wicherley ('Inspir'd with high and mighty Ale') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WyW 1 ff. 11r-12v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State...Part III (London, 1698). Summers, II, 245-7. For Shadwell's accompanying Letter…to Mr. Wicherley, see SdT 2-6.

      William Wycherley, The Answer [to Mr. Shadwell] ('That I have only answer'd Mum') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RoJ 150 ff. 13r-14v

      Copy of lines 171-260, headed Satyr by E Rochstr: and here beginning You Smile to see me (whom the World perchance).

      This MS collated in Walker.

      First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country ('Chloe, In verse by your command I write') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 174 ff. 18v-19v

      Copy, headed Royal Resolucons.

      First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

      Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DoC 73 ff. 21r-3r

      Copy, headed A Duel between two Monsters upon my Lady Bennets C-t with their Change of Governmt. from Monarchical to Democraticall. By Hen Savile. Esqr.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DoC 90 ff. 44r-54r

      Copy, the poem here dated 1687.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies ('Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DrJ 223 f. 68v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.

      John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DoC 8 f. 79r-v

      Copy, headed Answer. By L. Dorset.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers ('Damon, if thou wilt believe me') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DoC 288 ff. 87r-8r

      Copy, headed An Excellent New Ballad Giveing....

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd The Female Nine ('When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DrJ 136 ff. 101r-2r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.

      John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton ('What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DoC 114 ff. 125r-6r

      Copy, headed On the Fr. King & Madam Maintenon. By Ld Dorset. 1692..

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French ('In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms') | Catalogue
    • DoC 163 ff. 135v-6r

      Copy, headed A Madame, Madame, B, Beaute Sexagenaire (Ldy Manchester) By Ld Dorset.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester ('Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair') | Catalogue
  • MS Eng. poet. c. 25

    A composite volume of verse and prose, iii + 155 leaves.

    Collected by Richard Frank (c.1698-1762), of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire, and chiefly comprising papers of the Yorkshire antiquary Nathaniel Johnston (1629-1705).

    Late 17th century.

    W.H. Robinson, sale catalogue No. 74 (1944), items 21 and 271.

    This volume recorded (as Bacon Frank Vol. 21) in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 457-8.

    • RoJ 124 f. 75r

      Copy, untitled and following the Latin version, with other verses on a folio leaf.

      First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as [On Louis XIV]. See also A.S.G. Edwards, Rochester's Impromptu on Louis XIV, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV ('Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy') | Catalogue
  • MS Eng. poet. c. 42

    The Dobell Folio.

    Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

    Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

    Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

    • *TrT 204 f. 2r
      Autograph

      Autograph, stanza 6 deleted.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 1-3. Bell, pp. 1-2. Margoliouth, II, 4, 6. Ridler, pp. 5-6.

      Thomas Traherne, The Salutation ('These little Limmes') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 228 ff. 2r, 3v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler. Facsimile of f. 2 in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 4-7. Bell, pp. 3-5. Margoliouth, II, 6, 8, 10. Ridler, pp. 6-8.

      Thomas Traherne, Wonder ('How like an Angel came I down!') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 134 ff. 3v-4r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 8-10. Margoliouth, II, 12, 14. Ridler, pp. 8-10.

      Thomas Traherne, Eden ('A learned and a Happy Ignorance') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 166 f. 4r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, here beginning But that which most I wonder at, which most.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 11-13. Bell, pp. 7-10. Margoliouth, II, 14, 16, 18. Ridler, pp. 10-11.

      Thomas Traherne, Innocence ('But that which most I Wonder at, which most') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 192 f. 4r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, the heading altered from The Vision.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 14-17. Bell, pp. 13-15. Margoliouth, II, 20, 22, 24. Ridler, pp. 12-14.

      Thomas Traherne, The Preparative ('My Body being Dead, my Lims unknown') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 170 f. 4v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, the heading altered from The Vision.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 18-19. Bell, pp. 15-16. Margoliouth, II, 24. Ridler, pp. 14-15.

      Thomas Traherne, The Instruction ('Spue out thy filth, thy flesh abjure') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 225 f. 5r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, a deleted annotation in Philip Traherne's hand Adam. p. 12.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 20-2. Bell, pp. 16-18. Margoliouth, II, 26, 28. Ridler, pp. 15-17.

      Thomas Traherne, The Vision ('Flight is but the Preparative: The Sight') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 194 f. 5r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 23-4. Bell, p. 19. Margoliouth, II, 30. Ridler, p. 17.

      Thomas Traherne, The Rapture ('Sweet Infancy!') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 158 ff. 5v-6r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, stanza 8 deleted, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand [Childhood deleted] p. 120 & p. 9. News p. 133.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 25-9. Bell, pp. 61-4. Margoliouth, II, 30, 32, 34, 36. Ridler, pp. 18-20.

      Thomas Traherne, The improvment (''Tis more to recollect, then make. The one') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 73 f. 6r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 30-2. Margoliouth, II, 36, 38, 40. Ridler, pp. 21-2.

      Thomas Traherne, The Approach ('That Childish Thoughts such Joys inspire') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 130 f. 6r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with deletions and revisions.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 33-6. Margoliouth, II, 40, 42, 44. Ridler, pp. 22-4.

      Thomas Traherne, Dumnesse ('Sure Man was born to Meditat on Things') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 209 ff. 6v-7r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 37-40. Bell, pp. 82-5. Margoliouth, II, 44, 46, 48, 50. Ridler, pp. 25-7.

      Thomas Traherne, Silence ('A quiet Silent Person may possess') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 176 f. 7r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, revised.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 41-5. Bell (1910), pp. 78-82. Margoliouth, II, 50, 52, 54, 56. Ridler, pp. 27-30.

      Thomas Traherne, My Spirit ('My Naked Simple Life was I') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 70 f. 8r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), p. 46. Bell, p. 88, as Right Apprehension II. Margoliouth, II, 56. Ridler, p. 31 (as Evidently a fragment of a discarded longer poem, which T[raherne] placed here as a kind of postscript to My Spirit [TrT 176-7]).

      Thomas Traherne, The Apprehension ('If this I did not evry moment see') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 146 f. 8r
      Autograph

      Autograph, headed Fulnesse.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 47-8. Margoliouth, II, 58, 60. Ridler, pp. 31-2.

      Thomas Traherne, Fullnesse ('That Light, that Sight, that Thought') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 178 f. 8r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand The Inheritance p. 113.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 49-52. Bell, pp. 71-3. Margoliouth, II, 60, 62, 64. Ridler, pp. 32-4.

      Thomas Traherne, Nature ('That custom is a Second Nature, we') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 132 f. 8v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 53-4. Margoliouth, II, 64, 66. Ridler, pp. 35-6.

      Thomas Traherne, Ease ('How easily doth Nature teach the Soul') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 213 f. 9a
      Autograph

      Autograph, with alterations in Philip Traherne's hand and the heading changed from The Designe.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 55-6. Bell, pp. 90-1. Margoliouth, II, 68, 70. Ridler, pp. 36-7.

      Thomas Traherne, Speed ('The Liquid Pearl in Springs') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 122 f. 9ar-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, the title altered in Philip Traherne's hand to The Choice.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published, as The Choice, in Dobell (1903), pp. 57-9. Margoliouth, II, 70-1. Ridler, pp. 37-9.

      Thomas Traherne, The Designe ('When first Eternity Stooped down to Nought') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 189 f. 9av
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 60-2. Bell (1910), pp. 94-6. Margoliouth, II, 74, 76, 78. Ridler, pp. 40-1.

      Thomas Traherne, The Person ('Ye Sacred Lims') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 140 ff. 9av-9bv
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, with other alterations in Philip Traherne's hand, stanza 3 deleted.

      Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 63-6. Bell, pp. 97-8. Margoliouth, II, 78, 80, 82. Ridler, pp. 42-3.

      Thomas Traherne, The Estate ('But shall my Soul to Wealth possess') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 136 ff. 9bv-10r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with alterations in Philip Traherne's hand and annotated [The Return deleted] p. 2 The Evidence p. 3.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 67-9. Margoliouth, II, 82, 84. Ridler, pp. 44-5.

      Thomas Traherne, The Enquirie ('Men may delighted be with Springs') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 116 f. 10r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 70-3. Margoliouth, II, 152. Ridler, pp. 45-7.

      Thomas Traherne, The Circulation ('As fair Ideas from the Skie') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 50 ff. 10v-11r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 74-6. Margoliouth, II, 155-6. Ridler, p. 48.

      Thomas Traherne, Amendment ('That all things should be mine') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 121 f. 11r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 77-80. Margoliouth, II, 156-9. Ridler, pp. 49-52.

      Thomas Traherne, The Demonstration ('The Highest Things are Easiest to be shewn') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 60 ff. 11v-12r
      Autograph

      Autograph.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 81-6. Margoliouth, II, 159-63. Ridler, pp. 52-6.

      Thomas Traherne, The Anticipation ('My Contemplation Dazles in the End') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 198 f. 12r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 87-90. Margoliouth, II, 163-5. Ridler, pp. 56-8.

      Thomas Traherne, The Recovery ('To see us but receiv, is such a Sight') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 196 ff. 12v-13r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, with one alteration in Philip Traherne's hand.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published, as Another, in Dobell (1903), pp. 91-3. Margoliouth, II, 165-7. Ridler, pp. 58-60, as Another.

      Thomas Traherne, Recovery ('He seeks for ours as we do seek for his') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 172 f. 13r
      Autograph

      Autograph, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand Insatiableness p. 133.138.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 94-5. Margoliouth, II, 167-8. Ridler, pp. 60-1.

      Thomas Traherne, Love ('O Nectar! O Delicious Stream!') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 218 f. 13r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 96-9. Margoliouth, II, 169-72. Ridler, pp. 61-4.

      Thomas Traherne, Thoughts I ('Ye brisk Divine & Living Things') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 112 f. 13v
      Autograph

      Autograph, deleted.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), p. 154. Margoliouth, II, 171-2. Ridler, p. 64. This poem is closely related to stanzas 5 and 6 of The Apostacy (TrT 62-3).

    • *TrT 219 ff. 13v-14r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 100-2. Margoliouth, II, 172-3. Ridler, pp. 65-6.

      Thomas Traherne, Thoughts II ('A Delicate and Tender Thought') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 232 f. 14r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, headed in Bertram Dobell's hand The Influx.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published, as [The Influx], in Dobell (1903), pp. 103-4. Margoliouth, II, 174-5. Ridler, pp. 66-7.

      Thomas Traherne, 'Ye hidden Nectars, which my God doth drink' | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 220 f. 14v
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 105-7. Margoliouth, II, 175-7. Ridler, pp. 67-9.

      Thomas Traherne, Thoughts III ('Thoughts are the Angels which we send abroad') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 124 ff. 14v-15r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 108-10. Margoliouth, II, 177-9. Ridler, pp. 70-1.

      Thomas Traherne, Desire ('For giving me Desire') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 221 f. 15r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, untitled but headed In thy Presence there is fulness..., headed in Philip Traherne's hand —IV.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 111-14. Margoliouth, II, 179-82. Ridler, pp. 72-4.

      Thomas Traherne, Thoughts IV ('Thoughts are the Wings on which the Soul doth flie') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • *TrT 149 ff. 15v-16r
      Autograph

      Autograph, with revisions, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand & p. 143.

      Edited from this MS by editors.

      First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 115-18. Margoliouth, II, 182-4. Ridler, pp. 75-7.

      Thomas Traherne, Goodnesse ('The Bliss of other Men is my Delight') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
  • MS Eng. poet. c. 50

    A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps.

    Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.

    c.1630s-40s.

    Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor, James Leigh and Pettrus Romell. Owned in 1780 by one A. B. when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

    Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

    • MoG 2 f. 23v

      Copy, headed One ye late kinge James.

      A version of lines 1-22, headed Epitaph on King James and beginning He that hath eyes now wake and weep, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

      Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

      George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James ('All that have eyes now wake and weep') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DrW 117.1 f. 25r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CoR 600 f. 26r

      Copy, headed Ladies yt weare black Cypresse vailes.

      First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

      This poem is usually followed in MSS by The Ladyes Answer (Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night): see GrJ 14.

      Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse ('Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • GrJ 16 f. 26r

      Copy, headed in the margin The Ladies answere.

      An Answer to Corbett's To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.

      John Grange, 'Black cypress veils are shrouds of night' | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RaW 19 f. 31v

      Copy, headed in the margin Rawleighs Meditation.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust' | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HoJ 213 f. 32v

      Copy, here beginning Greate Verulm is very lame ye gout of god not feelinge.

      Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

      John Hoskyns, Sr Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount St Albons ('Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • BaR 3 f. 33r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems: In Divers Humors (London, 1598). Grosart, p. 194. Arber, p. 124.

      Richard Barnfield, A Comparison of the Life of Man ('Man's life is well compared to a feast') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 749 f. 34v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DrM 54 f. 35r

      Copy, headed in the margin Sonett.

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

      Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WiG 27 f. 35v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 894-900. Sidgwick, II, 160-5.

      George Wither, Sonnet ('Lordly Gallants, tell mee this') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • B&F 111 f. 36v

      Copy of the last song, untitled.

      This MS collated in Bowers, p. 144.

      First published in London, [1613?]. Dyce, II, 451-69 (p. 469). Bowers, I, 124-38, ed. Fredson Bowers (p. 138).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, 335-42. Song ('Peace and silence be the guide') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 401 f. 37r-v

      Copy, headed in the margin One a Cherrie stone sent to ye tip of mrs Jemiammas werldgraues eare one ye one side a delicate face on ye other side a deathes head.

      First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.

      Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • PoW 4 ff. 37v-8r

      Copy, headed in the margin of a gentlewoman yt would not belieue she was faire because her haire & eyes were black.

      First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R., in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes and superscribed R; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

      Walton Poole, 'If shadows be a picture's excellence' | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 50 f. 39r

      Copy, headed ye womans farewell to her louer who under pretence of trauill forsooke her.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

      Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DnJ 3195 f. 42v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

      The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 47 f. 43r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

      Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DnJ 2254 f. 43v

      Copy, untitled and here beginning If that I haue not all thy love.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

      John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse ('If yet I have not all thy love') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 332 ff. 45v-6r

      Copy, headed in the margin Kinge Oberons apparrell.

      This MS collated in Farmer.

      First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

      Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 172 f. 46r-v

      Copy, headed in the margin The feast Oberon Kinge of fayries and without the preliminary lines.

      First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

      Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CoR 291 ff. 47r-51v

      Copy headed Docter Corbets Journey.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

      Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 611 ff. 52r-3r

      Copy.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).

      Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 ('My soule the great Gods prayses sings') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WoH 161 f. 53r-v

      Copy, headed A Hymne made by Sr Hen Wootton In ye vnquiet nights of his late Sicknes.

      First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.

      Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there ('Eternal mover, whose diffused glory') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • BcF 54 ff. 55v-6v

      Copy, subscribed ffr: viot: st Alban:.

      First published in London, 1625. Spedding, VII, 273-86 (pp. 281-4). Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 281-9 (p. 289).

      Francis Bacon, A Translation of certain Psalms. Psalm 104 ('Father and King of pow'rs, both high and low') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • EaJ 11 ff. 56v-8r

      Copy, headed A ffunerall Elegie vpon ye death of ye Noble valiant & experienced Souldier Sr John Borroughs slaine before ye fort of St Martin in The Isle of Ree wth a Muskett bullet as he was veiwinge ye worke in the night.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

      John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree ('Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • JnB 533 f. 58r-v

      Copy, headed Benn Johnsons Newyears gift To my lord Treasurer.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.

      Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram ('If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • PlG 12 f. 59r

      Copy, headed Certain verses causd to bee songe to the Queenes Matie by Sr Hen: Lea Kt. when hee yealded vp his Helmit & Launce to the Earle of Cumberland at The tilt yard An. do: 1590 and here beginning My goulden lockes Time hath to siluer turnd.

      This MS collated in Clayton.

      First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court: The Texts and Authorship of His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.

      George Peele, A Sonet ('His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • KiH 282 f. 59v

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on Rich: -- Earle if Dorset who dyed on Easterday.

      First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

      Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HrG 294 f. 60r-v

      Copy, complete with L'Envoy (beginning Shine on, Maiestick soule, abide).

      This MS collated in Pebworth.

      First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. [186-92]. Hutchinson, pp. 211-13. Ted-Larry Pebworth, George Herbert's Poems to the Queen of Bohemia: A Rediscovered Text and a New Edition, ELR, 9/1 (Winter 1979), 108-20 (pp. 117-20). Herbert's authorship supported in Kenneth Alan Hovey, George Herbert's Authorship of To the Queene of Bohemia, RQ, 30/1 (Spring 1977), 43-50, and in Pebworth.

      George Herbert, To the Queene of Bohemia ('Bright soule, of whome if any countrey knowne') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • BcF 7 ff. 60v-1r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man' | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 1190 ff. 61r-2r

      Copy, headed Betwixt a Lutanist & a Nightingall These sweete expressions of musicke in a shady Groue / Translated by two ffrendes.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.

      William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada ('Now the declining Sun gan downward bende') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 333 f. 63r-v

      Copy, headed Kinge Obrons Apparell, subscribed Sr Simon Stewarde.

      This MS collated in Farmer.

      First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

      Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing ('When the monethly horned Queene') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 173 ff. 63v-4r

      Second copy, headed The feast of Obron Kinge of the ffayries, without the preliminary lines, subscribed Sr Simon Stewarde.

      First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

      Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast ('A Little mushroome table spred') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 3682 f. 64r-v

      Copy, headed of one comeinge into the Springe Garden and here ascribed to Herricke.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

      John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares') | Catalogue
    • HeR 374 f. 64v

      Copy of a three-stanza version, headed Of a proud Mrs.

      This MS colalted in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 189).

      First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 134. Martin, p. 421. Patrick, pp. 553-4.

      Robert Herrick, To a disdaynefull fayre ('Thou maist be proud, and be thou so for me') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 48 ff. 64v-5r

      Second copy, also untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

      Thomas Carew, The Comparison ('Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 223 f. 65r

      Copy of a sixteen-line version.

      Edited from this MS in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 89).

      First published (in a six-line version) in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 103. Patrick, p. 143.

      Robert Herrick, To Musick. A Song ('Musick, thou Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spel') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DnJ 1212 f. 65r-v

      Copy, headed A Songe and here beginning So, so, leaue off this last lamenting kisse.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

      John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 237 ff. 65v-7r

      Copy, subscribed T: R.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry ('Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 187 ff. 67r-8r

      Copy, headed An Elegie on the death of the Lady Peniston sent to his Mrs out of ffrance, subscribed T C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

      Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France ('Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 1224 f. 68r-v

      Copy, subscribed T. C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.

      Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) ('Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • PeW 300 ff. 68v-9r

      Copy, headed That lust is not his ayme, subscribed Sr. G. H.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      Poems (1660), pp. 33-4, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition. This poem is by Dudley North, third Baron North. First published in North's A Forest of Varieties (1645), p. 46.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, That Lust is not his Ayme ('Oh do not tax me with a brutish Love') | Catalogue
    • CwT 393 f. 71r

      Copy, subscribed T. C.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

      Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes ('In Celia's face a question did arise') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 1038 f. 71v

      Copy, here beginning Lost in a troubled Sea of Greifs I floate.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

      Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship ('Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 239 f. 72r

      Copy, headed On a fflye, subscribed T. C.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

      Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye ('When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 1035 ff. 73v-4r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 123-4.

      Thomas Carew, To Celia, upon Love's Vbiquity ('As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • FeO 23 f. 75v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

      First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

      Owen Felltham, A Farewell ('When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • FeO 59 f. 75v
      No description or publication history available.

      Fitst published in The Last Remains of Sr John Suckling (London, 1659), pp. 32-3. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 48-9.

      Owen Felltham, This ensuing Copy the late Printer hath been pleased to honour, by mistaking it among those of the most ingenious and too early lost, Sir John Suckling ('When, dearest, I but think on thee') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 1 f. 76r

      Copy, untitled, here beginning See'st thou those Jewills that she wears.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

      Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 989.5 f. 76r

      Copy of lines 37-48, untitled, here beginning Those curious Lockes soe aptly twin'd.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 676 f. 76v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Thomas Carew, Secresie protested ('Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WoH 70 f. 77r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning You glorious trifles of the East.

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 323 f. 78r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E.K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

      Robert Herrick, 'Hide not thy love and mine shall be' | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • FlJ 9 ff. 78v-80

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, appended to The Honest Man's Fortune, in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 453-6.

      John Fletcher, Upon An Honest Man's Fortune ('You that can look through heaven, and tell the stars') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • GrJ 38 f. 80r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare. Gent. (London, 1640), as An Allegoricall allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees, subscribed I. G. Listed in Krueger.

      John Grange, 'Come you swarms of thoughts and bring' | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • FeO 37 f. 82r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      A sixteen-line version first published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 11.

      Owen Felltham, On a Jewel given at parting ('When cruel time enforced me') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 328 f. 84r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 46.

      Robert Herrick, His Mistris to him at his farwell ('You may vow Ile not forgett') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 108 ff. 84-6

      Copy, of a twenty-one-stanza version, untitled.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 53-8. Patrick, pp. 76-81.

      Robert Herrick, An Epithalamie to Sir Thomas Southwell and his Ladie ('Now, now's the time. so oft by truth') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 164 ff. 86v-9r

      Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed Epithalamie.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.

      Robert Herrick, A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady ('What's that we see from far?') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 128 ff. 89r-91r

      Copy, headed His ould age to Mr. Weeks.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.

      Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus ('Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 353 ff. 91v-2v

      Copy, headed My Daughters Dourie.

      First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 436-9. Martin, pp. 407-9. Patrick, pp. 539-42.

      Robert Herrick, Mr Hericke his daughter's Dowrye ('Ere I goe hence and bee noe more') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 195 ff. 92v-3v

      Copy, headed My Charge and here beginning Go & with this partinge Kisse.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.

      Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled ('Go hence, and with this parting kisse') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 142 ff. 93v-4v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 75-6. Patrick, pp. 107-9.

      Robert Herrick, The Lilly in a Christal ('You have beheld a smiling Rose') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 28 f. 94v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 87. Patrick, p. 124.

      Robert Herrick, The Bubble. A Song ('To my revenge, and to her desp'rate feares') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 402 ff. 94v-5r

      Second copy, headed On a Carued Cherrie Stone.

      First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.

      Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare ('Lady I intreate yow weare') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 317 f. 95r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Martin (1956), pp. 441-2 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

      Robert Herrick, The farewell ('Sweetest Loue since wee must part') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 576 ff. 95v-7r

      Copy.

      Unpublished? Probably written by Burton's eldest son.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the First Newes of Sr Edward Burton being blind ('Sir as for him that told me first 'twas true') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 328 ff. 97v-8r

      This MS recorded in Davis.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 156 f. 98r

      Copy, following the Latin version headed In eanden Distcon.

      First published, following a Latin version beginning Vox Hellenum, vultus Hecubam te Lesbia clamat, in Day (1932), p. 35.

      Thomas Randolph, In Eandem Dystichon. Englished ('By thy lookes Hecuba, Helen by thy songe') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 40 ff. 98v-101r

      Copy, headed His Complaint on Cupid that he neuer made him enamoured.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 35-40.

      Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love ('How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 252 f. 101r

      Copy, following the Latin version headed In Ecclipsin solis Christo Patienti contingente and beginning Quid Templum abscindit.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the Englished version of Latin verses beginning Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Passion of Christ ('What rends the temples vail, where is day gone?') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 20 f. 101r-v

      Copy, headed A Paradise to Mr. Johnsons ode and subscribed T: R.

      This MS collated in Davis.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.

      Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage ('Ben doe not leave the stage') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 164 f. 102r

      Copy, headed englished, following the Latin version headed In Natalem Principis ad reginam mariam.

      First published, following a Latin version beginning Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria), in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.

      Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] ('Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 152 f. 102r

      Copy, headed Englished, following the Latin version.

      First published, following a Latin version beginning Inviditne tibi Tellus tua gaudia caelum, in Day (1932), p. 35.

      Thomas Randolph, In Diem Baptizationis Principis Caroli. Englished ('Why att thy Christ'ening did it rayne deare Prince') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 428 f. 102r

      Copy of the song of the Seven Deadly Sins, headed The Maske of Vices, subscribed T. R.

      First published (with Poems) Oxford, 1638. Hazlitt, I, 173-266 (p. 192).

      Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song ('Say in a dance how shall we go') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 161 ff. 102v-3r

      Copy, headed In Lesbiam, subscribed Tho: Ran:.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 42-4.

      Thomas Randolph, In Lesbiam, & Histrionem ('I wonder what should Madam Lesbia meane') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 61 f. 103r-v

      Copy, subscribed T. R.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 48-9.

      Thomas Randolph, De Sene Veronensi. Ex Claudiano ('Happy the man that all his dayes hath spent') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 149 f. 104v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, following a Latin version beginning Ah miser, & nullo felix in amore! Corinnam, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 98-9.

      Thomas Randolph, In corydonem & Corinnam. Paraphras'd ('Ah wretch in thy Corinna's love unblest!') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 15 ff. 104v-5r

      Copy, headed Excludit Sanos Helicone Poetas Democritus ad amicum Litigantem, subscribed T. R.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 97-8.

      Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicum Litigantem ('Would you commence a Poet Sr, and be') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MsP 10 ff. 106v-8v

      Copy, subscribed P. M. ffinis.

      This MS collated in Edwards & Gibson.

      First published in A.K. McIlwraith, The Virgins Character: A New Poem by Philip Massinger, RES, 4 (1928), 64-8. Edwards & Gibson, IV, 409-13.

      Philip Massinger, The Virgins Character ('Such as doe Trophies striue to raise') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • ShJ 24 f. 108v

      Copy of a version headed To a Gentleman that magnified his Mrs. the prayse of a Mr. and beginning I haue noe humour to adore the face.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 16.

      James Shirley, Friendship, Or Verses sent to a Lover, in Answer of a Copie which he had writ in praise of His Mistris ('O how I blush, to have ador'd the face') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • ShJ 122 f. 108v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, as a Song, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.

      James Shirley, 'Would you know what's soft?' | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RaW 297 f. 109r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs ('Nature that washt her hands in milke') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • ShJ 51 f. 110r

      Copy, headed one that Lou'd a great Mrs. & durst not discouer it and here beginning I cannot longer hold, my body grows.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 4.

      James Shirley, A Lover that durst not speak to his Mistris ('I can no longer hold, my body growes') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • ShJ 2 f. 110r

      Copy, headed Curtisan.

      First published, adapted as stanzas 3 and 4 of Cupid's Call (Ho! Cupid calls, come Lovers, come), in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 89.

      James Shirley, Another ('Harke, harke how in euery groue') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • ShJ 44 f. 110v

      Copy of a version headed To his Mrs. whom hee Lou'd to enioy her and beginning Ladie whts your face to mee.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 7.

      James Shirley, Love for Enjoying ('Fair Lady, what's your face to me?') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • JnB 155 f. 111r-v

      Copy.

      First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • JnB 197 ff. 111v-12v
      No description or publication history available.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 51 f. 113r

      Second copy, untitled.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

      Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • JnB 273 f. 113r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

      Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse ('Doe but consider this small dust') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 548 ff. 115v-16r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 206 f. 116v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

      Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence ('You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 313 ff. 116v-17v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Margaret Crum, An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick, RES, NS. 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 189).

      First published in Martin (1956), pp. 443-4 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto). Not included in Patrick.

      Robert Herrick, Elegy ('Since, louely sweete, much like vnto a Dewe') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DnJ 2064 ff. 117v-18r

      Copy of lines 1-12, 21-30, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • JnB 354 f. 118r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (ix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 149-50.

      Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland ('I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 138 ff. 118v-20r

      Copy, headed Of a Snake wch embrac'd Lycoris when she slept.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 28-34, following a Latin version beginning Ver erat, & flores per apertum libera campum.

      Thomas Randolph, In Anguem, qui Lycorin dormientem amplexus est. Englished thus παραψρ ('The Spring was come, and all the fields growne fine') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DnJ 202 f. 120r-v

      Copy, headed Apparition.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

      John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • JnB 715 f. 120v

      Copy of Karolin's song, untitled.

      First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

      Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song ('Though I am young, and cannot tell') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • ClJ 39 f. 121r-v

      Copy, headed The ffayre Mayde Scorninge The blacke Boye, subscribed John Cleueland.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.

      John Cleveland, A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her ('Stand off, and let me take the aire') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 983 ff. 121v-2r

      Copy of lines 23-80, headed To my dearest that is mistrustfull of her owne Beautie and here beginning Looke my onely dearest on my Loue=like heart.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 84-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.D. unreasonable distrustfull of her owne beauty ('Fayre Doris breake thy Glasse, it hath perplext') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • ClJ 173 f. 122r

      Copy, headed On ye Earle of Strafford.

      First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

      John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford ('Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WaE 121 f. 122v

      Copy, under a general heading Verses written by Mr Dauenant Mr Carey & Mr Kelligraue Anno 1640.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 111.

      Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque ('Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WaE 365 f. 122v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

      Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WaE 356 ff. 122v-3r

      Copy, headed On the frendeshippe betweene Sacharissa & Amorett.

      First published, as On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.

      Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WaE 464 f. 123v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.

      Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied ('Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WaE 528 ff. 123v-4r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.

      Edmund Waller, To Amoret ('Fair! that you may truly know') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WaE 38 f. 124r

      Copy, headed Songe.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 126.

      Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song ('Behold the brand of beauty tossed!') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WaE 227 f. 124r-v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WaE 484 f. 124v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 109.

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen ('Madam! intending to have tried') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WaE 448 ff. 124v-5r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53-4.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • WaE 273 f. 125r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases ('No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 1291 f. 126r

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 549 f. 127r

      Second copy, headed A Sigh.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

      Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind ('Goe thou gentle whispering wind') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 693 f. 127v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.

      William Strode, A Register for a Bible ('I am the faithfull deputy') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 1215 f. 127v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

      William Strode, A watchstring ('Tymes picture here invites your eyes') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 143 f. 127v

      Copy of a sequence of five couplets.

      Text from this MS in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.

      William Strode, A Girdle ('When ere the wast makes too much hast') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 967 ff. 127v-8r

      Copy, here beginning Like to the rowlinge of an Eye.

      First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.

      MS texts usually begin Like to the rolling of an eye.

      William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection ('Like to the casting of an Eye') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CoR 484 f. 128r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

      Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 ('Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 644 f. 128v

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

      William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy ('Returne my joyes, and hither bring') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 1339 f. 128v

      This MS recorded in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, On Jealousy ('There is a thing that nothing is') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • KiH 430 f. 128v

      Copy, headed Mans miserie

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

      Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 195 f. 129r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

      William Strode, Justification ('See how the rainbow in the skie') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CoR 517 f. 129r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

      Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CoR 719 f. 129r

      Copy, headed on ye blasinge starr.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

      Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre ('A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 412 f. 129v

      Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman yt had ye small pox.

      First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

      William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox ('A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 927 f. 130r

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

      William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment ('Preferment, like a Game at bowles') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • B&F 114 f. 130r-v

      Copy, headed on Melencholie.

      Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

      For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 302 f. 130v

      Copy, here beginning Fitter a match hath neuer beene.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

      William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter ('A fitter Match hath never bin') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DaJ 167 f. 130v

      Copy, headed de susante immatura morte perempto and here beginning As carefull mothers to ye beads doe lay.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • BrW 110 f. 130v

      Copy, headed In eundem.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor ('Nature in this small volume was about') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 677 f. 130v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.

      William Strode, A pursestringe ('Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 75 f. 130v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.

      William Strode, An Earestring (''Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 610 f. 131r

      Copy, headed On a fountaine.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.

      First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

      William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason ('These Dolphins, twisting each on others side') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 991 f. 131r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

      First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

      William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CoR 436 f. 131r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent).

      Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church ('Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • JnB 342 f. 131v

      Copy of lines 7-24, untitled, here beginning You are not tied by any painters Law.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.

      Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter ('Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 429 f. 131v

      Second copy, also headed The Masque of vices.

      First published (with Poems) Oxford, 1638. Hazlitt, I, 173-266 (p. 192).

      Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song ('Say in a dance how shall we go') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 504 f. 132v

      Copy.

      First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

      The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale ('When shall we meet again and have a taste') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 253 f. 132v

      Second copy, headed Ecclips solis and without the Latin verses.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the Englished version of Latin verses beginning Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.

      Thomas Randolph, On the Passion of Christ ('What rends the temples vail, where is day gone?') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 485 f. 132v

      Copy.

      First published in A Crew of Kind London Gossips (London, 1663).

      Thomas Randolph, On Feild and Day standing for the Procteourshippe ('Fortune contended whether she should yeeld') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 242 f. 133r

      Copy, headed The deuines comendation of a good voice.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1. Forey, pp. 109-10.

      William Strode, A Musical Contemplation ('O lett me learne to be a Saint on earth') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 380 f. 133r

      Second copy, headed a Complaint.

      First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

      Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris ('Whither are all her false oathes blowne') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 2 f. 133r

      Second copy, headed A fancie.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

      Robert Herrick, The admonition ('Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CoR 535 f. 133v

      Copy, headed on ye death of ye Lady Arabella.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

      Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella ('How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
  • MS Eng. poet. c. 53

    A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves.

    c.1640.

    Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.

    • JnB 323 f. 2v

      Copy, headed Two Ladies invitinge each other to singe.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

      Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CoR 565 f. 3r

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

      Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CoR 697 f. 3r

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

      Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes ('Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse') | Catalogue
    • StW 462 f. 3v

      Copy.

      First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

      William Strode, On a good legge and foote ('If Hercules tall Stature might be guest') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • SuJ 234 f. 4r

      Copy.

      First published in Sir John Mennes and James Smith, Musarum Deliciæ (London, 1655). Clayton, pp. 208-9. Sometimes improbably ascribed to Sir John Mennes.

      John Suckling, Upon Sir John Sucklings most warlike preparations for the Scotish Warre ('Sir John got him on an ambling Nag') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DaW 5 f. 5r-v

      Copy, headed An Elegie on the death of Francis late Earle of Rutland.

      First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 62-4.

      Sir William Davenant, Elegie, on Francis, Earle of Rutland ('Call not the Winds! nor bid the Rivers stay!') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 543 ff. 5r-6r

      Copy.

      Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School ('What heat of learning kindled your desire') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CwT 1163 f. 7r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 30-1.

      Thomas Carew, To the King at his entrance into Saxham, by Master Io. Crofts ('Sir, Ere you passe this threshold, stay') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • GrJ 77 f. 7v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in Poems (1660), pp. 63-4, as Benj. Rudier To the Prince At his Return from Spain. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as by John Grange.

      John Grange, 'Sir, such my fate was, that I had no store' | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 452 f. 8r

      Copy, ascribed to T. R.

      (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

      Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DnJ 2065 f. 9v

      Copy of lines 1-18.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • BmF 2 f. 13r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, as An Elegie by F. B., in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

      Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae ('Madam, so may my verses pleasing be') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 116 f. 14r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

      Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack ('Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 263 ff. 14v-15v

      Copy, headed His reconciliation to Sacke.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

      Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack ('So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • SuJ 93 ff. 18r-19r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.

      First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.

      John Suckling, The Wits (A Sessions of the Poets) ('A Sessions was held the other day') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • SuJ 198 f. 22v

      Copy.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

      John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse ('I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RnT 457 f. 38r et seq.

      Copy, ascribed to T.R..

      (Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

      Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks ('Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name') | Catalogue
  • MS Eng. poet. d. 3

    The greater part of a quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), iii + 104 leaves, in 19th-century green morocco gilt.

    Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

    c.1604-9.

    Owned in 1615-16 by one Bassett and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.

    All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

    • RaW 151 f. 2v

      Copy of lines 1-54; imperfect, lacking the ending.

      This MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.

      First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

      This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie ('Goe soule the bodies guest') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • NaT 21 f. 21r-v

      A series of brief extracts from Nashe's prose works, from Christs Teares over Ierusalem (1593), Have With You to Saffron-Walden (1596), Nashes Lenten Stuffe (1599), Pierce Penilesse (1592), and Summers Last Will and Testament (1600).

      Thomas Nashe, Extracts
    • MrT 45.3 f. 26r

      Extracts from Robynson's English translation.

      Discussed in Elizabeth McCutcheon, More's Utopia as Commonplaced in Edward Pudsey's Booke (Circa 1600), Moreana, 27 (September 1990), 33-40.

      The Latin version first published in Louvain, 1516. Ralph Robynson's English translation published in 1551. Yale, Vol. 4.

    • BcF 205.8 f. 31r-v

      Extracts.

      Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral | Catalogue
    • BcF 304.8 f. 32r-v

      Extracts.

      First published with Essayes (London, 1597). Spedding, VII, 227-42. His translation, pp. 243-54.

      Francis Bacon, Meditationes sacrae | Catalogue
    • BcF 231.5 f. 33r

      Extracts.

      First published with Essayes (London, 1597). Spedding, VII, 65-92. Spedding, VII, 67-8.

      Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil | Catalogue
    • JnB 605 f. 39v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1600. Herford & Simpson, III, 405-604.

      Ben Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour | Catalogue
    • JnB 567 f. 40r-v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, IV, 1-184.

      Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels | Catalogue
    • MrJ 9 f. 40v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1601. Edited by John S. Farmer, Tudor Facsimile Texts (1912).

      John Marston, Jack Drum's Entertainment | Catalogue
    • ChG 8 f. 41r

      Extract, headed Irus.

      Printed from this MS in Richard Savage, Shakespearean Extracts from Edward Pudsey's Booke (Stratford-upon-Avon, [1887]), p. 7, and in Greg, pp. vi-viii.

      First published in London, 1598. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1928). Edited by Lloyd E. Berry in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 7-58.

      George Chapman, The Blind Beggar of Alexandria | Catalogue
    • JnB 602 f. 41r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, III, 191-403.

      Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour | Catalogue
    • ShW 61 f. 41r

      Extracts.

      Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 1-6.

      First published in London, 1600.

      William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice | Catalogue
    • MrJ 1 f. 41v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1602. Bullen, I, 1-93. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1921). Edited by G.K. Hunter (London, 1965).

      John Marston, Antonio and Mellida, The First Part | Catalogue
    • MrJ 2 f. 41v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1602. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1921). Edited by G.K. Hunter (London, 1966).

      John Marston, Antonio's Revenge | Catalogue
    • JnB 692 ff. 41v-2r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1602. Herford & Simpson, IV, 185-325.

      Ben Jonson, The Poetaster | Catalogue
    • MiT 7 ff. 41v, 42v, 86r

      Extracts.

      This MS discussed in Juliet Gowan, Edward Pudsey's Booke and the Authorship of Blurt Master Constable, RORD, 8 (1965), 46-8 (where Dekker's authorship of the play is argued).

      First published in London, 1602. Bullen, I, 1-98. This play is not now generally attributed to Middleton.

      Thomas Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable | Catalogue
    • DkT 44 f. 42v

      Extract, headed Pl. vntruss: of ye Poet: Dekker.

      First published in London, 1602. Bowers, I, 299-395.

      Thomas Dekker, Satiromastix | Catalogue
    • DaS 47 f. 63v

      Extract from Daniel's translation of Giovio's Dialogo dell' imprese militari et amorose.

      First published in London, 1585. Grosart, IV, 1-27, and V, 297-304 (extracts).

      Samuel Daniel, The Worthy tract of Paulus Jouius, contayning a Discourse of rare inuentions, both Militarie and Amorous called Imprese | Catalogue
    • BcF 83.5 f. 64v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 139-60.

      Francis Bacon, Apology in Certain Imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex | Catalogue
    • SiP 178 f. 73r-v

      Extracts, headed Apolog: of Poetry. sr P.S..

      This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 557.

      First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry | Catalogue
    • LoT 11 f. 78r-v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1596. Gosse, Vol. III.

      Thomas Lodge, The Divel coniured | Catalogue
    • BrN 113 f. 78v

      Extract.

      First published in London, 1603. Grosart II (i), printed from the edition of 1635 entitled A Mad World my masters, Mistake me not.

      Nicholas Breton, A Merrie Dialogue betwixt the Taker and Mistaker | Catalogue
    • DkT 43 f. 80r

      Extracts, continuing from DkT 42.

      First published in London, 1604. Bowers, II, 1-130.

      Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part I | Catalogue
    • JnB 558 f. 80r

      Extracts, headed Tis a mad world.

      First published in London, 1609. Herford & Simpson, III, 93-190.

      Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered | Catalogue
    • MrJ 10 ff. 80v, 81r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1607. Bullen, II, 317-419.

      John Marston, What You Will | Catalogue
    • ToC 7 ff. 80v-1v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1611. Nicoll, pp. 173-255.

      Cyril Tourneur, The Atheist's Tragedy | Catalogue
    • WeJ 11 f. 81r-v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1612. Lucas, I. Cambridge edition, I, 139-254.

      John Webster, The White Devil | Catalogue
    • HyT 7 f. 86r

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1602.

      Thomas Heywood, How a Man may chuse a Good Wife from a Bad | Catalogue
    • LyJ 1 f. 86v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1584. Bond, II, 313-60.

    • LyJ 4 f. 86v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1601. Bond, III, 289-332.

      John Lyly, Loves Metamorphosis | Catalogue
    • ShW 86 f. 86v

      Extracts.

      Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 10-22. See also ShW 87.

      First published in London, 1597.

      William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet | Catalogue
    • ShW 105 f. 86v

      Extracts.

      Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 8-9.

      First published in London, 1594.

      William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus | Catalogue
  • Eng. poet. d. 47

    A verse miscellany, entitled Lusus seniles or trifles to kill time, much relating to Oxford, iv + 180 leaves.

    Mid-18th century.

    Signed (f. iv) by Frances Lidmoll. Acquired in 1941 from J. Kyrle Fletcher.

    • WaE 351.8 f. 160v

      Copy.

      First published, as On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.

      Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies ('Tell me, lovely, loving pair!') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
  • MS Eng. poet. d. 49

    Folio, 296 pages; exemplum of the first edition of Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681).

    Folio, 296 pages; exemplum of the first edition of Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681) with additional MS material, namely: (a) the printed text contains various MS corrections, deletions and emendations (notably on pp. 3-5, 7-11, 14, 19-24, 27-8, 42-3, 46-7, 49, 51-8, 61-70, 72-6, 78, 80, 85, 87-90, 92-3, 95-6, 99-100, 111-14, 132), as well as other crosses, annotations and renumberings; (b) some missing stanzas in seven poems on cancelled (i.e. excised) pages of text are replaced in MS (on pp. 35[-7], 38, 103[-10], 115a-u [115-29], 116a-b [130]); (c) a series of 18 poems in MS (including at least three probably by poets other than Marvell) are bound-in at the end, on pp. 141-285 (those on pp. 272-85 crossed through); the main series of emendations in the printed text and the additional MS pages are in a single hand of c. 1700 except for the lines on p. 269, the second half of On the Monument (When Hodge first spy'd the labour in vain) which are added in another hand to replace the heavily deleted same text on p. 271, and the final poem on pp. 277-85, which is in yet another hand; some annotations and deletions, as well as a series of crosses made subsequently, are in two or three further hands, including notes by the editor captain Edward Thompson (the first dated 1775) on pp. 157, 258; lines by Sir Philip Meadows are added at the foot of p. 63 in a hand resembling that of William Popple the Younger (d. 1772).

    This volume, which may originally have been prepared as a collection of Marvell's poems for an intended edition, was evidently used by Edward Thompson in connection with his edition of Marvell in 1766 (see his vol. I, xxxviii et passim, and see further the Introduction for the distinction between this volume and another MS owned by Thompson). It is evident, from details of correspondence, that this is the volume known to have been lent to Thompson by T.J. Matthias, whose wife was a descendant of Marvell's brother-in-law, Edmund Popple, the son of whom was William Popple (1638-1708), Secretary of the Board of Trade; thus it may have been compiled principally by or for William Popple. However, this conjecture cannot at present be proved beyond doubt (see particularly the caveat in Chernaik, pp. 206-7).

    Cited in IELM as the Thompson Volume: MaA Δ 1. Described in BLR, 2 (May 1945), 125; in Hugh MacDonald, Andrew Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems, 1681, TLS (13 July 1951), p. 444; and in Margoliouth, I, 233-5.

    Facsimiles of select pages of this volume containing MS material are in Miscellaneous Poems, 1681 (1973), and see also Kelliher, p. 65. The various MS corrections and emendations in the printed text are recorded in Margoliouth, but are not given separate entries. The volume has been discussed by all editors since 1776 and also in Kelliher, pp. 63-4, and Chernaik, pp. 206-14. It is largely used as the basis for Lord's edition (1968). For comments on the relation of this volume to the canon, see further the Introduction.

    • MaA 53 p. 35

      Stanza v at the end supplied in MS to replace a leaf extracted from the printed text.

      Facsimile of this page in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 40-1. Lord, pp. 37-8. smith, pp. 114-15.

      Andrew Marvell, The Picture of little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers ('See with what simplicity') | Catalogue
    • MaA 47 p. 38

      Stanzas i-v supplied in MS to replace a leaf extracted from the printed text.

      Facsimile of this page in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 42-3. Lord, pp. 38-40. Smith, pp. 126-7.

      Andrew Marvell, The Match ('Nature had long a Treasure made') | Catalogue
    • MaA 61 p. 103

      Stanzas lxxxxv-lxxxxvii at the end supplied in MS to replace a leaf extracted from the printed text.

      Facsimile of this page in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 62-86. Lord, pp. 61-88. Smith, pp. 216-41.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax ('Within this sober Frame expect') | Catalogue
    • MaA 1 p. 115

      Lines 147-52 at the end supplied in MS to replace a leaf extracted from the printed text.

      Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 100-3. Lord, pp. 88-93. Smith, pp. 250-6.

      Andrew Marvell, The Character of Holland ('Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land') | Catalogue
    • MaA 32 pp. 115a-e

      Copy supplied in MS to replace leaves extracted from the printed text.

      Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681), but cancelled from all known exempla (except one in the British Library). Margoliouth, I, 91-4. Lord, pp. 55-8. Smith, pp. 273-9.

      Andrew Marvell, An Horation Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland ('The forward Youth that would appear') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 27 pp. 115e-u

      Copy supplied in MS to replace leaves extracted from the printed text.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth. Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

      First published in London, 1655. Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681), but cancelled from all known exempla except one in the British Library. Margoliouth, I, 108-19. Lord, pp. 93-104. Smith, pp. 287-98.

      Andrew Marvell, The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C. ('Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 38 p. 116a

      Copy supplied in MS to replace leaves extracted from the printed text.

      Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 99. Lord, pp. 238-9. Smith, p. 258, with English translation.

      Andrew Marvell, In Legationem Domini Oliveri St. John ad Provincias Foederatas ('Ingeniosa Viris contingunt Nomina magnis') | Catalogue
    • MaA 46 p. 116b

      Copy of the title and lines 1-8 supplied in MS to replace a leaf extracted from the printed text.

      Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973).

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 104-7. Lord, pp. 240-3 (with translation pp. 243-7). Smith, pp. 261-4, with English translation (pp. 265-6).

      A version of lines 1-70, with an additional unknown couplet, as copied by Jean Scheffer (1621-79) from Marvell's original Letter (a copy owned in 1751 by Jean Etienne Bernard (1718-93)), was printed in Jean Arckenholtz, Memoires concernant Christine, reine de Suede (Amsterdam, 1751-60), II, Appendix XXXVIII, pp. 68-70: see Hilton Kelliher, Marvell's A Letter to Doctor Ingelo, RES, NS. 20 (1969), 50-7.

      Andrew Marvell, A Letter to Doctor Ingelo, then with my Lord Whitlock, Ambassador from the Protector to the Queen of Sweden ('Quid facis Arctoi charissime transfuga coeli') | Catalogue
    • MaA 55 pp. 141-53

      Lines 185-234 edited from this MS in Margoliouth and in Lord. The rest collated in Margoliouth. Facsimile in Miscellaneous Poems 1681 (1973) [pp. 148-53 following p. 144 of printed text; pp. 141-7 of MS at the end]. Facsimile of p. 150 in Kelliher, p. 65.

      First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681), but cancelled from all known exempla except one in the British Library. Margoliouth, I, 129-37. Lord, pp. 105-13. Smith, pp. 304-12, as A Poem upon the Death of his Late Highness the Lord Protector.

      Andrew Marvell, A Poem upon the Death of O.C. ('That Providence which had so long the care') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 314 pp. 157-71

      Copy, the poem here dated 1666.

      Edited from this MS in POAS, I.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

      The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

      Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter ('Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 361 pp. 172-86

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

      Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter ('Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 125 pp. 187-92

      Edited from this MS in POAS, I; collated in Margoliouth.

      First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

      Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming ('When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 500 pp. 193-234

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in POAS, I, and in Lord. Collated in Margoliouth. See also Michael Gearin-Tosh, Marvell's Last Instructions: Textual Errors and their Poetic Significance, SN, 42 (1970), 309-18. Discussed, with a facsimiles of p. 223, in Hilton Kelliher, Marvell's The Last Instructions to a Painter: From Manuscript to Print, EMS, 13 (2006), 296-343.

      First published in The Third Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 147-72. POAS, I, 97-139. Lord, pp. 151-86. Smith, pp. 369-96. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 36-7.

      Andrew Marvell, The last Instructions to a Painter ('After two sittings, now our Lady State') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 171 pp. 235-7a

      Copy of lines 1-39, 43-54, headed The Vows.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

      Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 191 pp. 237b-47
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in one version [c.1669?] (exemplum without title-page owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia, 935Q). An incomplete version in Charles Gildon, Chorus Poetarum (London, 1694). Margoliouth, I, 180-7. Lord, pp. 188-92. Smith, pp. 403-12.

      Lines 15-62 also appear as lines 649-96 in The last Instructions to a Painter (MaA 500-4), and lines 178-85 appear as a separate poem in Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (MaA 253-280).

      Andrew Marvell, The Loyal Scot ('Of the old Heroes when the Warlike shades') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 85 p. 246

      Copy, headed The same translated.

      Edited from this MS in Lord.

      First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

      Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona ('Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 253 p. 246

      Edited from this MS in POAS, I.

      First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

      This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

      Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 84.3 pp. 247-9

      Copy.

      Sometimes called Upon the cutting of Sr John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from Marvell's writing). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad called The Haymarket Hectors ('I sing a woeful ditty') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 232 pp. 250-1b

      Copy, headed Upon Sr Robert Viners Setting up the Kings Statue in Woolchurch Market.

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 163.1 pp. 265-7

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Thompson.

      Edited in Thompson (1776), I, xlix-l. Grosart, I, 467-9.

      Andrew Marvell, The Doctor turn'd Justice ('Lewellin, though Physician to the King') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 301 pp. 251c-4

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 214 pp. 255-7

      This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 62 pp. 258-63

      Copy, without The Answer.

      Edited from this MS in POAS, I.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn ('I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 211 pp. 264-5

      Copy.

      First published in Thompson (1776), I, xlviii. Margoliouth, I, 213-14. Smith, pp. 421-2, with English translation. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, Scaevola Scoto-Brittanicus ('Sharpius exercet dum saevas perfidus iras') | Catalogue
    • MaA 210.6 pp. 268-9

      Copy.

      First published, as On the Monument upon Fish-street Hill, in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 27. Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703-4).

      Andrew Marvell, On the Monument ('When Hodge first spy'd the labour in vaine') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 434 pp. 272-6

      Copy, ascribed in another hand to Mr Aylof and deleted.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 98 pp. 277-85

      Copy, ascribed in another hand to Mr Aylof and deleted.

      This MS collated in POAS, I, with a facsimile of p. 277 of the MS facing p. 228.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

      Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
  • MS Eng. poet. d. 53

    A miscellany of verse and prose, mainly on affairs of state, 176 pages, in Middle Hill boards.

    c.1700.

    Formerly Phillipps MS 10984. Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 995. Then owned by F.W. Cock. Sotheby's, 8 May 1944 (Cock sale), lot 235. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue 97 (1947), item 179.

    • CoA 174 p. 4

      Copy.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].

      Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.

      Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana ('By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RoJ 11.3 p. 23 et seq.

      Copy.

      First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion ('The freeborn English Generous and wise') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DaW 37 pp. 59-66

      Copy, headed The Rationall Sceptist by a Person of Honour and here beginning Vnlesse by Death, you nu knowledge gain.

      First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 182-96. The poem originally intended to form part of Gondibert (see Gibbs, pp. lii et seq., 431).

      Sir William Davenant, The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian ('Before by death you newer knowledge gain') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DoC 339 ff. 86-93

      Copy, headed The E: of Rochestrs: last Fairewell to ye Cort. 1686.

      First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
  • MS Eng. poet. d. 152

    A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves.

    Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.

    Late 17th century.

    Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.

    • DoC 254 f. 10r-v

      Copy, headed To Mr Bays by ye E: of Dorsett 1685, in a small quarto verse miscellany.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Bays ('Thou mercenary renegade, thou slave') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • MaA 444 ff. 12r-v, 15r-16r

      Copy, headed The fourth advice to A Paynter written by Andrew Marvel Esqr AD: 1670.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe') | Catalogue
    • DaW 62 ff. 16v-17r

      Copy in a small verse miscellany.

      First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 31-2.

      Sir William Davenant, To the King on New-yeares day 1630. Ode ('The joyes of eager Youth, of Wine, and Wealth') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HaW 4 f. 20r

      Copy, headed To a wanton woman, on a single quarto-sized leaf.

      First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 16.

      William Habington, To a Wanton ('In vaine faire sorceresse, thy eyes speake charmes') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DoC 361.2 f. 36r et seq.
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • RoJ 301 ff. 70r-1r

      Copy of lines 1-95, headed Satyre agst Mankind, in a portion of a quarto miscellany.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • SeC 101 f. 79r

      Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, loc. cit.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (Antwerp [i.e. London], 1680). Possibly by Sedley: see David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven & London, 1963), pp. 172-4, 404-5.

      Sir Charles Sedley, Song ('In the Fields of Lincolns Inn') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HrJ 127 f. 96r

      Copy, untitled and here beginning A Gentle Lady sitting in a muse, transcribed by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729) from a MS. written 1612.

      First published in Epigrammes appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

      Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett ('A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse')
    • CrR 204 f. 98r-v

      Copy, headed Loues Hue & Cry, on a single octavo leaf.

      First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 159-61.

      Richard Crashaw, Out of the Greeke Cupid's Cryer ('Love is lost, nor can his Mother') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DaJ 120 f. 103v

      Copy of lines 1-2 of poem 10 (The Wyfe), headed A new married Bride and beginning The first of all our Sex came from the side of man.

      This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 597.

      First published as Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.

      Sir John Davies, Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis ('Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • CrR 45 ff. 103v-4r

      Copy.

      First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 174 (and later version pp. 399-400).

      Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph Vpon Husband and Wife, which died, and were buried together ('To these, Whom Death again did wed') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • StW 1010 f. 106v

      Copy, headed On his Mistris.

      This MS collated in Forey.

      First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

      William Strode, A Sonnet ('My Love and I for kisses played') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • KiH 579 f. 107r

      Copy, headed To a faire but unkind Mistrisse.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

      Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

      Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 145 f. 107r

      Copy, apparently transcribed from the text in Wits Recreations (London, 1663), in a small octavo verse miscellany.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 141. Patrick, p. 191.

      Robert Herrick, Long and lazie ('That was the proverb. Let my mistresse be') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • HeR 139 f. 108v

      Copy, apparently transcribed from the text in Wits Recreations (London, 1663), in a small octavo verse miscellany.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 296. Patrick, pp. 389-90.

      Robert Herrick, An Hymne to Love ('I will confesse') | Catalogue | First Lines Index
    • DoC 124 f. 186r

      Copy, here beginning After fourteen days thinking of whigg and of Tory, on a single quarto-size leaf.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory') | Catalogue
  • MS Eng. poet. d. 197

    Autograph verse epistle, sent to Lady Carew; addressed To the Honorable lady the lady Carew.

    [1611-12].

    Formerly among the muniments of the Montagu family, Dukes of Manchester. Sotheby's, 23 June 1970, lot 267, to Martin Breslauer.

    Recorded in HMC, 8th Report, Appendix, Part II (1881), p. 63, No. 593. Identified as autograph in 1970 by P.J. Croft. Reproduced, transcribed and discussed in A.J. Smith, A John Donne poem in holograph, TLS (7 January 1972), p. 19 (with correspondence from Helen Gardner, A.J. Smith and P.L. Heyworth on 21 January (pp. 68-9), 4 February (p. 129) and 24 March (p. 337)). A Scolar Press facsimile, ed. Helen Gardner (1972). Nicolas Barker, Donne's Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche: Text and Facsimile, The Book Collector, 22 (Winter 1973), 487-93. Facsimile examples in Keynes, Bibliography (1973), facing p. 183; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 25-6; in Nicolas Barker, Goodfriday 1613: by whose hand?, TLS (20 September 1974), pp. 996-7; in Derek Parker, John Donne and his World (London, 1975), p. 16; in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 84-5; and in Facsimiles in Laetitia Yeandle, Watermarks as Evidence for Dating and Authenticity in John Donne and Ben Franklin, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 81-92 (pp. 85-7).

    • *DnJ 1858
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.

      John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens ('Here where by All All Saints invoked are') | Catalogue